Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from El Salvador and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Motions to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Ronan. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Cluster,
Black Pus,
Kas Product,
The United States of America,
Howard Jones,
Joey Negro,
Nils Olav,
Faraquet,
The Fortunes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Youth Brigade,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nas,
Aswad,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fad Gadget,
Moebius,
Khruangbin,
Malaria!,
8 Eyed Spy,
Patti Smith,
Amon Düül,
Eli Mardock,
The Index,
Dark Day,
Moss Icon,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Vogues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Banda Bassotti,
Anthony Braxton,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Searchers,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
Severed Heads,
KRS-One,
Easy Going,
Scratch Acid,
The Walker Brothers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Connie Case,
The Remains,
Hardrive,
Bobby Byrd,
Funky Four + One,
The Busters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Livin' Joy,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Invisible,
Soul II Soul,
Au Pairs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ornette Coleman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
LL Cool J,
Marc Almond,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.